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id: 19463
title: James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters
author: Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford
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  Cooper was, by nature, a man of deep religious feeling. Cooper''s life as regards the conception of character and scene that Little notice, however, was taken at the time of Cooper''s preference not only the first of Cooper''s sea-stories in point of time, but if we Cooper at the time of writing his first novel was dwelling at Angevine. There is little doubt that with a man of Cooper''s nature the revulsion Cooper''s feelings on political subjects were aroused, his literary work for some years Cooper did the Whig newspaper offices of the state of New was not printed at the time; but no sooner was Cooper''s work published The "Ways of the Hour" was the last work that Cooper published. Cooper''s novels were from that time published in Great Britain, in cheap Cooper, at the time he published his last novel, was more than sixty


id: 18566
title: Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series)
author: James, Henry
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  pains to collect the more interesting facts of Hawthorne''s life, I am proof of how little the world of observation lay open to Hawthorne, at of to-day that Hawthorne showed great courage in entering a field in Letter_ appeared, Hawthorne was forty-six years old, and this may I have said that Hawthorne was an observer of small things, and indeed my dear native land." The perusal of Hawthorne''s American Note-Books imaginative vision, the great fact of man''s nature; the light element Hawthorne was at home in the early New England history; Hawthorne''s life, which appears to me worth quoting, though I am by no Of Hawthorne''s little book there is nothing particular to either of the three tales of American life, and Hawthorne forfeited a Like all of Hawthorne''s things, it contains a great many light threads Of the four last years of Hawthorne''s life there is not much to tell


id: 6926
title: Memories of Hawthorne
author: Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne
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  Melville is drawn to the life by Mrs. Hawthorne, in a letter to her Mrs. Hawthorne writes to her father about him, his family at "Miss Hawthorne came to walk, and remarked to Mary how beautiful the One afternoon Elizabeth Hawthorne came to walk with Mary, and mother morning, and in the evening Hawthorne came and said that he went to Having gone to stay for a few days in Herbert Street, Mrs. Hawthorne small space into which to squeeze a large love, which I send to Mrs. H., with my thanks for her kind letter, which could not come too late, While on a visit to her mother, Mrs. Hawthorne writes to her MY DEAR FATHER,--Mr. Hawthorne received news by telegraph to-day that Mr. Tappan thinks Mr. Hawthorne''s portrait looks like Tennyson. She soon waked, all smiles and love; and then Mr. Hawthorne and Mr. Hosmer came in, still upon the theme of great men.


id: 6982
title: Hawthorne and His Circle
author: Hawthorne, Julian
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  and the Death--less Man--The little red house--Materials of culture--Our shelf were my father''s books, and for fifteen years the old man had read went to live in the Mall Street house, the old lady and her daughters My father''s eyes again turned with longing towards the sea-shore; and substantive man, and my father took a great liking to him, which was father it came in the shape of a few English friends, and in occasional banquets at which, in some great houses, our father and mother were But it was a good and happy life in Rock Park, and I think our father the best I could to be a good little boy there; but I recollect Mrs. Channing''s face of sorrow and distress when, one day at dinner, I upset father and mother presently called her) was then about twenty-two years with my father and mother, I entered the door of a queer old house close


id: 7881
title: Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  In the first place, he took us through narrow streets to an old church, beautiful pictures by great masters, painted for the places which they open, and we went into a large room on the ground-floor, and, looking up On our way, looking down a cross street, we saw a heavy arch, On our way home, sitting in one of the narrow streets, we saw an old locanda was built of stone, and had what looked like an old Roman altar painted glass I saw in England, and a great wheel window looks like a altar, elevated on four pillars of beautiful marble, is what looks like a old banker, in Roman costume, seated, and looking like a man fit to hold Palace, which looks a little less like a state-prison here, than as it way looked into the old church, which was so dim in the decline of day


id: 7880
title: Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2.
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  gallery, I think I might come to have some little knowledge of pictures. rest of the face, it has a very queer look,--less like a human eye than a We looked pretty thoroughly through the gallery, and I saw many pictures altar, elevated on four pillars of beautiful marble, is what looks like a old banker, in Roman costume, seated, and looking like a man fit to hold Palace, which looks a little less like a state-prison here, than as it was pleasant, looking downward into the little old piazza and narrow busts, that look like faces of ancient people gazing down out of the streets of old Siena looked very grim at night, and it seemed like gazing way looked into the old church, which was so dim in the decline of day we saw what looked a rough village street, betwixt old houses built


id: 7879
title: Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1.
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  are fresco paintings of sacred subjects, and a beautiful picture covers In the first place, he took us through narrow streets to an old church, beautiful pictures by great masters, painted for the places which they lights burning at the altar, and it looked very like a Christian church; open, and we went into a large room on the ground-floor, and, looking up On our way, looking down a cross street, we saw a heavy arch, painting in fresco, looking like a whole heaven of angelic people To-day we went to the Colonna Palace, where we saw some fine pictures, On our way home, sitting in one of the narrow streets, we saw an old locanda was built of stone, and had what looked like an old Roman altar painted glass I saw in England, and a great wheel window looks like a


id: 7878
title: Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  As we left the house, we looked into the dark and squalid dining-room, boat arrived from town, I went into the ferry-house, a small stone passed many old thatched cottages, built of stone, and with what looked the finest old English village I have seen, with many antique houses, and hotels, one of which has the look of a good old village inn; and the itself a compact little town, with a market-house, built of the old brick, common to buildings in the city, looks like a time-long stand, the large interior hall saw some old armor hanging on the wall at one end,-went into St. Paul''s, and walked all round the great cathedral, looking, Quiet old English towns, that till within a little time ago great size, but old, and looking as if its tower were built, not for The street looks as old as any that I have seen, except,


id: 7876
title: Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  As we left the house, we looked into the dark and squalid dining-room, believe,--with narrow streets and mean houses all of brick or stone, and It is a stone edifice, like almost all the English houses, Yesterday there limped in a very respectable-looking old man, who boat arrived from town, I went into the ferry-house, a small stone The other day, at the entrance of the market-house, I saw a woman sitting and in the streets, hard-trodden snow, looking more like my New England passed many old thatched cottages, built of stone, and with what looked the finest old English village I have seen, with many antique houses, and saw little or nothing, except the mean and new brick lodging-houses, on hotels, one of which has the look of a good old village inn; and the brick, common to buildings in the city, looks like a time-long stand, the


id: 7877
title: Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  pretty large town, of rather ancient aspect, with many gray stone houses, great size, but old, and looking as if its tower were built, not for bridge we had a good view over the town, which looks ancient, with red The same day I took the rail from the Little Street station for of the old English hall or manor-house--appeared on the hillsides, with antique, there being a great many projecting windows, in the old-time soon got out of the way, and came to a little hamlet that looked antique Along the road,--an old inn; some aged stone houses, built for merely large, comfortable, old-fashioned parlor, with windows looking on the Close beside the ruins there is a large, old stone farm-house, which must After tea we took another walk, and this time went along the High Street, The street looks as old as any that I have seen, except,


id: 11549
title: The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
author: Prentiss, George Lewis
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  a darling little wife, and write me loving words in your next letter. that you may be the beloved of the Lord and rest in safety by Him. The early years of Mrs. Prentiss'' married life were in various ways which I said something like this: Mamma knows a dear little boy who was summer of 1865, having lived away from New York, I saw little of Mrs. Prentiss, but I have a special remembrance of one little visit you made But, as I said the other day, if at any time you feel a little Think of that, dear, when you remember how I loved you in Mrs. G.''s little parlor! God for His long years of discipline, but very likely life did not look _Friday._--We began this day by going at ten A.M. to the funeral of Mrs. W.''s poor little baby, and the first words papa read, "It is better


id: 12563
title: Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920)
author: Van Doren, Carl
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  the end of the nineteenth century; _Contemporary American Novelists_ American fiction of the century has to be studied--so far as the novel man comes into the mountains, loves the flower of all the native South, where a new order of life, after a generation of clinging the American business man has suffered from the critical light in which in actual American life has allowed his lease to run so long. Austin has pointed out of American fiction at large--came nearer to In its realistic hours local color in New England liked participate in life, but the American Woman, that traditional figure visions can ever come to later spirits; in human society he sees it fiction, as numerous American novelists have shown--standing ordinarily, He allows John Charteris in _Beyond Life_--for the most part Mr. Cabell''s mouthpiece--to set forth the doctrine that romance is the real himself to writing sharp-eyed stories concerning the life of art as


id: 7301
title: Nathaniel Hawthorne
author: Woodberry, George Edward
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  In the fall of 1818, when Hawthorne was fourteen years old, the family old, Hawthorne left Salem for Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine, by he had not really lived a home life since he was fifteen years old, and Hawthorne''s secret life in the years before his own "Note-Books" begin. life of rambling about the country and writing new tales; and, except The truth was that Hawthorne led a life apart in his own genius, and When Hawthorne came to live at the Old Manse it was some time since he cast out as in old times, is puerile; but Hawthorne was, in other tales, Hawthorne left himself out of his work, so far as a man can. last three years, and saying, "The life of the Custom House lies like a Hawthorne''s personality pervades it, like life in a sensitive hand. Hawthorne writes Life of; Hawthorne''s life in;


id: 7170
title: The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
author: Stearns, Frank Preston
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  and as Hawthorne went to Sebago for the first time the preceding year, Hawthorne was well liked in his class in spite of his reserved manners, Hawthorne''s nature was not like Emerson''s, and what life-long friend, and even went to Concord to lecture, he and Hawthorne manner so much that it is a relief to him to meet a man like Hawthorne, of man--like electricity; but Hawthorne did not agree with them. Doctor Peabody''s house in West Street, Boston; Mrs. Hawthorne wisely his eyes were different.] With two small children on her hands, Mrs. Hawthorne had slight opportunity to enjoy general society, fashionable Hawthorne simply as a man like themselves, instead of as a celebrity, position, and coming from Hawthorne, of all writers, it seems like Hawthorne''s description suggests a man somewhat like this; but the of English life and manners Mrs. Hawthorne''s letters, though not always


id: 8530
title: A Study of Hawthorne
author: Lathrop, George Parsons
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  Perhaps it is even a favoring fact that I should never have seen Mr. Hawthorne; a personality so elusive as his may possibly yield its traits The history of Hawthorne''s genius is in some sense a summary of all New the Note-Books of Hawthorne this want is to a large extent made good. Hawthorne''s Note-Books has put it in the power of various writers of the "Note-Books" and the works of Hawthorne which recall and sustain it. deal of him has related how in the very last year of his life Hawthorne In the goodness of her heart, she thought the son of old Mrs. Shane not quite so valuable as the son of the Widow Hawthorne. Hawthorne has given another glimpse into his interior life at this time: great facility in writing: indeed, Hawthorne used at one time to say To men like Hawthorne, however little they may noise the fact abroad,


id: 13155
title: James Fenimore Cooper
author: Phillips, Mary Elizabeth
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  James Fenimore Cooper, Esq., of Albany, New York, and also to his For rare values, in service and material, special credits are due to Mr. George Pomeroy Keese, Cooperstown, N.Y.; James Fenimore Cooper, Esq., permission of owner, James Fenimore Cooper, Esq. ORIGINAL OTSEGO HALL. ELIZABETH FENIMORE COOPER IN THE OLD HALL HOME. COOPER''S NEW YORK CITY HOME IN BEACH STREET. To a friend William Cooper wrote: "I began life with a small capital The Cooper room of this old stone house, now the home of Mrs. Benedict, [Illustration: COOPER''S FENIMORE FARM HOUSE.] [Illustration: ELIZABETH FENIMORE COOPER IN THE OLD HALL HOME.] tells of a fine, old-time home, beyond the valley below Cooper''s [Illustration: COOPER''S NEW YORK CITY HOME IN BEACH STREET.] General Wilson wrote: "Soon after Bryant went to New York he met Cooper, [Illustration: COOPER''S SUMMER HOME, ST. [Illustration: COOPER''S NEW YORK CITY HOME, ST.


id: 35706
title: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart
author: Barr, Amelia E.
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  not tell to any good man or woman; for the end of God-sent sorrow is "Father called him John Henry, first thing," said Jane, "and Mother is night, until Mother went to see Miss Pearson, and came home charmed letter in her hand, and, with great excitement, said: "Mrs. Huddleston, I am sorry, but I must go back to England at once." On the third day of the New Year, Robert''s mother called in the A month after Mother left us, Robert brought home one day the tickets knew so little of Robert''s family affairs, that I was like a woman the days came and went in an easy, happy way that has left few Robert came home one day and told me Mrs. Carron''s eldest One day when the year was drawing close to Christmas, Robert came home So in April Mary went to Mrs. Sykes, and Lilly came home a few days


id: 40529
author: Lathrop, George Parsons
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  Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on the Fourth of July, 1804, at Salem, carried on, and debouches not far from the Custom House where Hawthorne that first ancestor," Hawthorne wrote in "The Custom House," "invested thought it best to have a talk with the old nag, and said, ''Good In fact, Hawthorne''s friends in political life, Pierce and Jonathan Longfellow, Hawthorne wrote in good spirits:-Hawthorne began "The House of the Seven Gables;" writing to Bridge in Hawthorne''s old college friend, Franklin Pierce, after having been to published a book since then; but although Hawthorne met many persons Before leaving England for the last time, Hawthorne went up alone to Concord, in what forlorn state an extract from a letter of Mrs. Hawthorne''s may best convey: "He came back unlooked for, that day; and was invited by the Hawthornes to the West Newton house (at that time In 1863--the last year of his life--Hawthorne wrote to Mr. Stoddard, who

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  The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Appendix to Volume XII: Tales, Sketches, and other Papers by Nathaniel Hawthorne with a Biographical Sketch by George Parsons Lathrop Biographical Sketch of Nathaniel Hawthorne


id: 41309
title: Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 1 (of 2)
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  Dove was thinking through my mind and feeling through my heart! No letter, my dearest; and if one comes tomorrow I shall not October 24th.--Â½ past 6 P.M. Dearest Dove, your letter came to-day; Dearest and best wife, I meant to have written you a long letter this utter thyself to thy husband, dearest wife, there is doubtless a Oh my darlingest wife, thy husband''s soul yearns to embrace thee! Here is thy husband, yearning for thee with his whole heart--thou, sweetest Dove, that thy husband is a most unmalleable man;--thou art thee--so, for the writer''s sake, thou wilt receive it into thy heart wife, thy poor husband is sometimes driven to wish that thou and he God bless thee, and let me feel his blessing through thy heart. belovedest wife, does it not make thee happy to think that thy husband Do thou be good, dearest love, and when I come, tomorrow night, let me


id: 41368
title: Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 2 (of 2)
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  time in thy bosom; for I doubt not, dearest, that thou wouldst admit 3d, 1841--4 o''clock P.M. Most beloved,--Thou dost not expect a letter from thy husband; and Dear little wife, didst thou ever behold such an awful scribble as thy _Salem_, September 14th, 1841--A.M. Ownest beloved, I know not whether thou dost expect a letter from thy I know not whether thou wilt have premonitions of a letter from thy Didst thou weary thy poor little self to death, yesterday? for thee during thy absence; and yet thou didst seem so well and happy Dearest, thou canst not have a long letter to-night, because thy I love thee, thou dearest. perfume this letter, and make thee think it came from thy husband''s to come to thee; and by this time, I hope, thou hast her. thou stay till next week, I will come and escort thee home.


